realskiers

The Hoji videos are jaw droppingly good skiing.  I quite literally sat their with my mouth agape as I watched Eric descend down that pillow line in the first vid.  That's skiing from a different world - possibly a different plane of existence.

There are skiers who can ski rockered skis with good technique.  Many have racing backgrounds, some do not.  There's quite a crew that regularly ski at Loveland on their big boards no matter what the conditions and they achieve some really great angles - generally very big toe/stance ski dominant skiing (lots of little stems between turns in their releases), but at least they're not living in the backseat.

There's style and then there's the technique that's the foundation of the style.  If the style is lacking a sound, fundamental solid foundation in how to properly use a ski then it's hard for me to give it much props.  That's where the comments on the "athleticism" come from, because the only way to survive using a backseat and twist the skis style is to have strength and good joints.  They won't last long skiing like that.